Garden at Bordighera, Morning explained

Garden at Bordighera, Morning is an 1884 oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet,^[1] now in the Otto Krebs collection at the Hermitage Museum, first displayed to the public in 1995.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Showing palm trees and a church tower in the background, the work was produced during a stay in Bordighera on the Ligurian coast of Italy from January to April 1884. He wrote to his art critic friend Théodore Duret "I set up in a fairyland. It would take a palette of diamonds and precious stones".^[5]

Other Monets in the Hermitage

• Woman in the Garden (1867)
• The Seine at Rouen (1872)
• The Seine at Asnières (1873)
• The Grand Quai at Le Havre (1874)
• Woman in a Garden (1876)
• Garden (1876)
• Corner of a Garden in Montgeron (1876)
• Pond at Montgeron (1877)
• Poppy Field (1886)
• Mill at Giverny (1886)
• Near Giverny, Sunrise (1888)
• Cliffs Near Dieppe (1897)
• Waterloo Bridge (1903)

See also

• List of paintings by Claude Monet

References

1. Web site: Art works. The State Hermitage Museum.
2. Web site: Garden in Bordighera, Impression of Morning - Claude Monet. 2020-09-03. www.arthermitage.org. en.
3. Albert Kostenevitch, Catalogue de l'exposition de la peinture française des XIXe et XXe siècles [à l'Ermitage] issue des collections privées d'Allemagne, ministère de la Culture de la Fédération de Russie, musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg, 1995,German translation by Kindler, Munich, 1995
4. Web site: Otto Krebs Collection: Spoils of War or Plunder in Peace? - Art Antiques Design. 2020-09-03. www.art-antiques-design.com.
5. Méditerranée, de Courbet à Matisse, Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, 19 septembre 2000 - 15 janvier 2001.